About the course

This is Volume 1 of 5 in my “Photoshop - Beginners to Intermediate” series. I have developed this series over many years of teaching at both the College and University levels in a variety of departments including the Multimedia Program, Graphic Design Program, the Fashion Program, and the Creative Photography Programs both daytime and evening diploma and certificate programs. These courses in Adobe Photoshop (Volumes 1 through 5), start right at the very beginning assuming that the learner has no experience in using the application.

Lecture 1: Navigating the Document Window

Knowing how to effectively and efficiently navigate around your image files (the document window) will allow you to zoom in and zoom out and focus on specific areas of interest in your images.

Lecture 2: Setting Up Our Preferences

Setting Photoshop up for success allows us to fine tune how the application performs. Photoshop is factory set for very generic purposes and not set up for photography.

Lecture 3: Setting Up Photoshop’s Colour Settings

Changing these default factory settings will allow your images to look clearer, cleaner and more vibrant in ways your friends, family and coworker’s images won’t because they aren’t aware of these issues.

Lecture 4: Creating a New Document

There are a number of ways to create new documents and knowing these little secrets will allow you to create your masterpieces faster like creating a new image file with the same attributes as your currently open file.

Lecture 5: Arranging Panels and Groups

Learning how to arrange and then rearrange Photoshop’s Panels and Panel Groups allows you to work on your images with less clutter in the application’s interface.

Lecture 6: Creating a Custom Workspace

Learning to modify Photoshop’s workspace so that only the tools and panels that you use most frequently are showing can help you work more efficiently.

Lecture 7: Learn how to use the Colour Head’s Up Display (HUD)

The Colour Head’s Up Display is just a fancy name for a really cool way to select existing colours in your image. Why is this important you ask? Well, for one thing, if you ever want to type some text over your image and you want to use a colour that already is in your image, using the HUD is quick and easy to do.

Lecture 8: An Introduction to File Size and Resolution

File size and resolution can be one of the biggest hurdles to wrap your head around for the average person. Getting a handle on this topic can greatly assist you if you ever wanted to create a montage or collage of any kind where you bring one or more images together for a birthday or anniversary collage.

Who Should Attend?

Those that have little or no experience using Adobe PhotoshopThose that are self-taught and don’t know what they don’t knowAnyone who is thinking of writing the Adobe Certified Expert Exam

Price: Free

Instructor:

John Warren

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Job:

When John moved to Toronto in the early 80's, he found employment with a portrait studio company and when he completed his training and probation period he became the new West Toronto Photography Trainer. He also helped develop the corporate training policies & procedures for that company's North American operation.

After working for the Metroland Group of Community Newspapers as a photographer for over 8 years, John began teaching at Humber College.

Education:

John first started teaching, actually the unofficial teaching assistant, at the School of Modern Photography in Montreal back in the early 70's when he himself was still a student. The lead instructor recognized John's ability to explain photographic principals and lighting techniques to other students and asked him to participate as the unofficial teaching assistant. The same thing more or less happened when he studied at Dawson College years later and at Humber College from 1997, through 1999.

Biography:

John's background is in photography. He was first introduced to photography way back in high-school and has been developing film and making prints ever since. He has had a variety of jobs in the photographic industry ranging from motion picture lab technician to portraits & weddings to commercial studio work to medical photography lab technician to newspaper photographer to shooting virtual tours and panoramic images and most recently specializing in sports photography.

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Price: Free

Instructor

John Warren

0&nbspVotes

Job:

When John moved to Toronto in the early 80's, he found employment with a portrait studio company and when he completed his training and probation period he became the new West Toronto Photography Trainer. He also helped develop the corporate training policies & procedures for that company's North American operation.

After working for the Metroland Group of Community Newspapers as a photographer for over 8 years, John began teaching at Humber College.

Education:

John first started teaching, actually the unofficial teaching assistant, at the School of Modern Photography in Montreal back in the early 70's when he himself was still a student. The lead instructor recognized John's ability to explain photographic principals and lighting techniques to other students and asked him to participate as the unofficial teaching assistant. The same thing more or less happened when he studied at Dawson College years later and at Humber College from 1997, through 1999.

Biography:

John's background is in photography. He was first introduced to photography way back in high-school and has been developing film and making prints ever since. He has had a variety of jobs in the photographic industry ranging from motion picture lab technician to portraits & weddings to commercial studio work to medical photography lab technician to newspaper photographer to shooting virtual tours and panoramic images and most recently specializing in sports photography.

Instructions

Please, enter the Webinar at least 20 minutes earlier, before the other participants join in in order to check if your devices and the system`s functionalities are properly set.

After you enter the webinar room, you have to test all of your devices and all of the functionalities you will be using-Desktop Sharing, Uploading your presentation etc. If you experience any difficulties, please make sure you have taken the following steps :

You have clicked the Accept button when your browser asked you for permission to use your devices.

During the Echo Test the system uses the microphone which is by Default. If you don`t hear your voice, probably the chosen microphone is not working. Choose the right microphone from the listed options in order to activate the right device.

When you test the Sharing Desktop functionality, make sure you are using the latest version of JAVA. If you are not, you can download it from here.

Your microphone or camera is not used by any other program on your computer.

You are using the latest version of your browser.

You have given permission to all of the blocking systems on your computer to use the necessary tools.

If you have properly followed the instructions, a WebRTC sign should appear in the lower right corner of the webinar room. This guaranties a high quality sound for the participants. If you want to change the microphone your operating system is using, you need to right click on the Audio icon of your Windows, choose Recording devices, and set the microphone you will be using as a Default. Enter the webinar again and you should hear your voice when you first make the Echo Test.

Please, warn the participant who won`t be using their microphone to choose Listen Only when they first enter the webinar room. For those students who would be joining the discussion with a microphone, it is highly recommended to use headsets to avoid causing background noise.